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May through October is peak wedding season, and because receptions can get repetitive, bride and groom often try to make their day distinctive. Sometimes the parents of the couple, often contributing part of the $30,000 average cost of a wedding, want to put their stamp on the event, too. But proceed with caution. There’s a good reason for those traditional rules of etiquette for the parents, says wedding planner Sandy Malone, the star of TLC’s “Wedding Island” reality show. “It’s …

You may have encountered Editta Sherman as a larger-than-life character in the 2010 documentary film about her fellow Carnegie Hall resident, Bill Cunningham (Bill Cunningham New York). The two photographers were friends for decades, and part of their special bond was living in a unique artists colony above America’s most famous concert hall. See a New York Times slideshow of Sherman and her work When I worked at Carnegie in the 1980s, Sherman, who died on Nov. 1 at the …